Lot 37
  • 37

Jacob Willemsz. de Wet Haarlem circa 1610 - 1675

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Description

  • Jacob Willemsz. de Wet
  • Christ Among the Doctors
  • oil on panel
  • 22 3/4 by 18 3/4 in.
  • 57.8 by 47.6 cm.

Provenance

Ch. Potter, Paris;
Acquired by the parents of the present owner in Paris, circa 1925. 

Catalogue Note

We are grateful to Prof. Werner Sumowski who, based on photographs, has confirmed the present painting to be a work by de Wet.  He compares it to another painting by de Wet depicting The Presentation in the Temple in the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires (see W. Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler, Landau/Pfalz 1983, vol. VI, cat. no. 2492, reproduced).